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Changes in the Aprilsphere

Hello April Shower’s Readers,

I’ve made a couple changes here for safety reasons. I took down the links of people I know personally that may not want their sight to be any thing more than a personal blog for their family and friends.

I know it sounds silly to take down links of people that I enjoy reading and actually know in person, but since my traffic has picked up here a tiny bit I didn’t want them to have any unwanted traffic on their sights. Which, when I think about it, is weird to not want traffic on a blog since it is such a public display of exhibitionism of sorts. But, I still don’t wish fame on folks that don’t intend for their blog to be anything more than a little place to talk about their humble musings and life debacles.

So, if you want me to link you back up, then you’ll need to bake me a cake, or offer to clean my toilets for the next twenty odd years or just ask me very nicely…in a British accent and I’ll put you back where you belong.

Aaaaand if you are still holding a privileged spot over there in my side bar, but wish to God in Heaven that you could be removed, but are very sheepish about approaching a very loud-mouthed blogger woman that may sick her chickens on you if you so dared to ever ask her to do such a thing, then arm yourself with some gumption and just say something like, “April, get me off the list, I don’t want to be listed, I feel exposed and uncomfortable and in all ways naked, so take me down! I want off, stop the bus and let me out!” I will expect that to be said in a French or Spanish accent or you can give me a mix of both, but please don’t actually start spouting your desperate plea in a French or Spanish or I won’t comprehend what your trying to say and might just get a bit freaked and sick a chicken on you.

Now, for those of you who want to be added to my sidebar….well, let me tell ya, there are some pretty big obstacles you have to pass. I’m not sure what they all are, because I make them up as I go, so just know they are hard and you may need to possess some serious skilzzz. But, if you are not going to feel like a whole, complete blogging-blogger without a stamp of linkage from me, then by all means leave me a comment with your url and beg mercilessly to be added and then I’ll think about it and maybe, if you’re lucky and have a dog by the name of Alsfaldghlashstkkkk then I’ll be more than happy to hand over a piece of my prime realeblog to you. Sound impossible? Wonder how hard it would be to actually gain a spot on April Showers? Me too. So only the brave and utterly curious should really attempt this feat. God speed bloggers, and may the best blogs win.

Are we clear? Okay, proceed with your blogging decisions. I’ll be right here, awaiting your reply……

Things that make you go ahhhh

Oh, blaaaaaah! This has been a very yucky hormonal day. It’s terrible what the body can do to a happy spirit. So, instead of whining to you all, and believe me, I could do some serious moaning and whining right now, I’ve decided to find some pictures of things that make my heart flutter with happiness.

Like this one. Although when my husband snapped it, I grabbed the camera away from him to see if he took a picture of me and I wanted to cry because somehow in the last several years I started to age and take on the face of a woman who’s seen her share of worry and sun exposure. Oh wait, am I complaining? Right. I like this picture because my husband caught me mid daydream. I was peering out the window of my sister’s beautiful house at a pasture full of grass. A crisp spring breeze was coming through the unfinished window and I was breathing in the clean, fresh Kansas air. I was thinking how wonderful it will be when the house is done and my nephews will be tearing around in their new place, breaking everything in and my sister will finally have her dream house to live in. A dream come true.
And this photo is just something you don’t see today. Do you know what makes it so wonderful? That’s right, shed dormers. I remember peering over my husband’s shoulder when he was drawing the back of this house and marveling at the shed dormers. Why were these abandoned and left astray in new housing, why? It also makes me happy to see something built that my husband helped design.

YIKES! This makes me happy? It’s rather creepy, isn’t it? But, she’s just a sweet sunbathing chicken. I would give a prickly evil eye too if someone snapped a picture of me all sprawled about with my breasts hanging out worshiping the sun gods, she has no modesty, honestly!


How could this picture of two baseball capped little boys being toted around in a red wagon not make me smile? It almost makes me forget how the little one kept kicking his brother in the back for having a toy he insisted was his.

This candid shot was taken when Ike crawled up on my lap while I was blogging. He asked if he could take a picture of us. “Smile Mom!”
Okay sweetie, I’ll smile and tomorrow will be a better day.

I do more weird/gross things before noon….

than most people want to do in a lifetime!!

So far I’ve…

Told my sons to take off their snow pants and put them away and, “No, you cannot put your swimsuit over your snow pants to look like your really muscular and play in the hose!”

Pondered over the mold growing on a sock in my daughter’s laundry.

Told my daughter to clean the cat food out of the bottom of her laundry hamper.

Had a cockroach crawl on my hand.

Screamed until I was light headed about the cockroach crawling on my hand.

Was consoled by my 11yo son only to get all hyper-don’t-touch-me when I noticed he was holding a Clorox wipe in his hand that he had been using to clean the toilette!!

Asked my 5yo why he smelled so strongly of vinegar??? “Cuz, I’m using it in my bean experiment”. Oh, well that’s explains everything.